Acute appendicitis in unenhanced spiral CT: Diagnostic luxury or benefit;Akute appendizitis im nicht-kontrast-spiral-CT: Diagnostischer luxus oder nutzen?

RoFo Fortschritte auf dem Gebiet der Rontgenstrahlen und der Bildgebenden Verfahren

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 26-31

  Stacher, R ^a,d   Portugaller, H ^a   Preidler, K W ^a   Ruppert Kohlmayr, A J ^a   Anegg, U ^b   Rabl, H ^b   Spuller, E ^c   Szolar, D H ^a  

^a Univ Klin fur Radiologie   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Univ Klinik fur Radiologie   (Austria)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Appendicitis; Appendix; Spiral Computed tomography, techniques

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST CONTROL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; CONTRAST MEDIA; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032747211     PISSN: 09366652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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